The other things professionals need more than amateurs is work flow. The ability to consistently and quickly process high-resolution images, typically in camera raw formats, and keep an original digital negative. They're also more concerned with modest light, contrast etc. adjustments, having usually framed the picture properly beforehand. Most consumer cameras produce jpegs, and most consumers shoot jpegs even when the camera can do raw because it's a waste of memory and time. They are more interested in cropping, removing red eye and so forth, and don't really care much about the business aspects. A picture of granny is a picture of granny, and it needs to go to email.
Unfortunately this seems to be the typical American way of looking at life nowadays. The purpose of life is to be a cogwheel in the great machine, and quality, let alone non-performance related indicators of quality are often ignored. I just want to get to where I can start pushing the buttons. All this turning is making me dizzy.
If you read IT management trade rags, it's pretty obvious that the "commonly accepted" right thing to do among management is, in all cases where employment ends, to very thoroughly disable access. There are articles, workshops and products out there for that sole purpose -- how to engineer your policies, procedures and access controls such that an employee's access can be terminated with a push of a button. I personally think this is very rude, and part of the American business culture, especially in IT, does seem to be a detachment of human emotion in the relationship between employee and employer. It does, however, make legal CYA sense and for better or worse, is SOP. No, it doesn't keep an employee from using previously planted back doors, but it's an aspect of security. It is an insult, but it isn't intended as one, and if you can take it in good humor and chalk it up to business school stupidity, more power to you. In the case of a resignation, doing this immediately rather than at the end of those two weeks is something that seems to vary between companies. Personally I would think that the company would want to conduct a good exit interview and have you brief your coworkers on what you were up to, and stuff they need to know about custom scripts and contacts and such.
Actually, in a whole lot of IT jobs, everything you write during your work hours belongs to the company, not you. Doesn't matter if it's a script to organize your iTunes. My current employer, a university, has had some very nasty disputes with research assistants and scientists that claim that things they did when "off the clock" and resulted in patents or other valuable IP belong solely to the university and the researchers are not entitled to any additional compensation.
I've been waiting to buy an MP3 player for quite a while now. The slick stick-format Sony player was going to be it, until I found out how badly the software sucked and how crippled it was. The Nano made me just stare in disbelief and I've got one on order. Why? Size and design. It's finally small enough to carry comfortably, has sufficient features (screen!), looks very nice (I also like the free engraving!) and to boot it should interface with my car stereo like other iPods do! Yeah, it only has 2/4 gigs, compared to 20, but that tradeoff versus the size is a total no-brainer for me. Besides, 4 gigs of music should keep me going for a pretty darn long time. There are other brands out there that have players that are also small and have a screen, but none of them has the aesthetically pleasing design and tactile feel of the iPods.
Of course this only applies to a basic, simple TCP/IP stack. Once you have to deal with Vlan trunking, QoS, load-balancing and similar things the load on the computer grows quite a bit. I can certainly see why it would make sense to put reasonable buffers, queing logic and other fairly advanced features on a card if performance is more important than price. None of these cards are intended for people's home PCs. They're meant for servers with 64-bit buses and SANs, where many of the other bottlenecks discussed earlier in this thread don't exist.
I second that. The only reason I'm still diddling around with my minidisk player is that it has microphone, line and TOSlink inputs and lets me record in very good quality in addition to playing. This is the first MP3 player I've seen offering anything remotely as useful. Now, the question is, does it also allow for automatic voice-operated control, and does it automatically preserve tracks when recording from TOSlink?
I think the phone looks ugly! The last decent looking phone Ericsson (or Sony) put out is the T39, which I love dearly. Maybe I'm just old fashioned:-)
2 kilometers? I don't think so, unless they have version with 100FX. Copper ethernet stops at 100 meters. Then again, even that would make for a pretty big stage... But just wait until someone figures out that this would be a perfect application for wireless. And power-over-ethernet seems to have found yet another application.
What I really want out of this are crush-proof, silicone sheathed ethernet cables that are easy to spool.
Curiously enough, Disney is known for Donald Duck & co more than for Mickey in Europe. At least the Scandinavian weekly comic books and pocket books also contain a reasonable amount of actual cultural knowledge, though nowhere near that of Asterix. They also have thriving and neat fan clubs and reader service. Anyhow, I've learned a lot of little strange trivia from my childhood with European Disney comics, be it about El Dorado, shrinking heads or the different sizes of wine bottles. I don't think most of this material was ever published in any meaningful fashion in the US, the more the shame.
Nope, but a lot of GSM/GPRS phones on the market act as a regular modem, so you can use a laptop/pda via bluetooth or IR or (ick) cable to dial-up. Unlimited weekend/night plans come in handy with something like that;-) The old Nokia communicator had vt100 terminal emulation, I think that's the closest I've seen any phone vendor come so far...
I'm sitting in front of a Sun 21" monitor at 1200x1024 @ 75 and I can't use my Cybex Switchview for monitor switching, from all the blur and shadows. It also echoes garbage (~b?) on some computers when switching keyboards. The specs and reviews claimed it'd work, but reality is different and the company disavowed any responsibility. My last Cybex product...
GSM. Cingular, VoiceStream and AT&T offer GSM in various parts of the country. The coverage isn't great overall, but improving. They still try to get you to buy a phone that's "subsidy locked" or "provider locked" meaning you can't take it to another provider's network. Some of the vendors also cripple the phones, disabling features they don't feel like supporting. You can, however, buy normal (unlocked) phones from third parties, off eBay, whatever. VoiceStream has also unlocked people's phones after a sufficiently long service term. Unfortunately the US decided to use a GSM spectrum different from that used elsewhere on the planet, so you are limited to either domestic models or multi-band world phones. Still, some of the offerings are pretty nifty, and the many of the GSM phones have excellent design and usability.
They exist, most notably in the troubled Foma system in Japan. Some of these phones were showcased in CTIA in Orlando earlier this year, and seemed to work pretty well. The video conferencing isn't going to be the killer though, I predict that the ability to take color snapshots and send them to others much like SMS messages is the feature that's going to prove most popular.
It should also be remembered that the H1B program greatly predates the dot com boom. Will the next victim be the visa categories allowing health care workers into the country? Instead of foreign nurses, let's just wait 'till enough Americans are retrained? Or let foreigners come in, then kick them out when all those people sucked in by the "Lucrative careers in nursing" ads graduate?
This is a very uninformed xenophobic rant. If H1B workers work for significantly lower wages than their American counterparts, it's illegal. Also, companies are required to give notice about the terms of hire to unions or other local workers prior to the fact, and at all renewals. Many H1B workers don't come from low-wage countries, but from Europe and Australia. They're hardly going to take a lot of BS from their American employers which already have much worse vacation, medical etc. benefits to offer. Finally, H1B workers aren't completely indentured. If they find another employer willing to sponsor their visa, they can change jobs.
If a company is paying a H1B worker less than the going wage for that position, they're violating existing federal laws. If this is a problem, there needs to be enforcement (for which the INS has hardly any budget), not new laws that can be ignored.
IANAL, but I believe multinational corporations can also import workers under visa categories other than H1B?
I dispute that. The US is a very large, incredibly diverse country. There are wiccans, orthodox jews, muslims, hindus, catholics, all of different races and cultural backgrounds (from their American families). There is no one American culture to understand. There are American ideals instead, and perhaps many of these foreigners try come to the US because they believe in those ideals and want to help build the nation?
A couple of points: 1) By law, H1B workers must be paid more than the going average wage for your position in your area. If companies are not, they're in violation of federal law and it's an enforcement problem. 2) H1B workers have to pay all the same taxes as Americans. In fact, for at least one year they're not eligible for even the standard deduction, and despite paying FICA taxes, they're not eligible for any social security benefits themselves. 3) I wish you luck and hope things improve soon.
Another group of users that need this bandwidth are network operators/backbone carriers. As expensive as 10 Gbps Ethernet is, it's still a lot cheaper than a Sonet or ATM solution of the same speed, and much more suited to connecting routers and switches together in a colo / switch center.
Besides, it's not that far from regular data centers either. Servers typically come with gigabit cards these days, and you need to be able to aggregate all these gigabit connections somehow. Clustering, backups, database duplication etc. all benefit from big pipes.
Before capping bandwidth and hideously oversubscribing Time Warner provided me with a 5 Mbps cable modem connection in the Tampa Bay area, as measured from downloading a RedHat ISO image from a university FTP server. Those were the days... In any event, cable modem technology supports a lot higher speeds than what users are currently getting.
All the Samsung, Sony/Ericsson etc. phones I've seen are butt ugly! Even the new Motorola phones beat these things in design! Feature-wise the asians seem to have an edge, though. Nokia, Benefon, Siemens at least make a phone that isn't a boring over-sized square.
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The other things professionals need more than amateurs is work flow. The ability to consistently and quickly process high-resolution images, typically in camera raw formats, and keep an original digital negative. They're also more concerned with modest light, contrast etc. adjustments, having usually framed the picture properly beforehand. Most consumer cameras produce jpegs, and most consumers shoot jpegs even when the camera can do raw because it's a waste of memory and time. They are more interested in cropping, removing red eye and so forth, and don't really care much about the business aspects. A picture of granny is a picture of granny, and it needs to go to email.
Unfortunately this seems to be the typical American way of looking at life nowadays. The purpose of life is to be a cogwheel in the great machine, and quality, let alone non-performance related indicators of quality are often ignored. I just want to get to where I can start pushing the buttons. All this turning is making me dizzy.
If you read IT management trade rags, it's pretty obvious that the "commonly accepted" right thing to do among management is, in all cases where employment ends, to very thoroughly disable access. There are articles, workshops and products out there for that sole purpose -- how to engineer your policies, procedures and access controls such that an employee's access can be terminated with a push of a button.
I personally think this is very rude, and part of the American business culture, especially in IT, does seem to be a detachment of human emotion in the relationship between employee and employer. It does, however, make legal CYA sense and for better or worse, is SOP. No, it doesn't keep an employee from using previously planted back doors, but it's an aspect of security. It is an insult, but it isn't intended as one, and if you can take it in good humor and chalk it up to business school stupidity, more power to you.
In the case of a resignation, doing this immediately rather than at the end of those two weeks is something that seems to vary between companies. Personally I would think that the company would want to conduct a good exit interview and have you brief your coworkers on what you were up to, and stuff they need to know about custom scripts and contacts and such.
Actually, in a whole lot of IT jobs, everything you write during your work hours belongs to the company, not you. Doesn't matter if it's a script to organize your iTunes. My current employer, a university, has had some very nasty disputes with research assistants and scientists that claim that things they did when "off the clock" and resulted in patents or other valuable IP belong solely to the university and the researchers are not entitled to any additional compensation.
I've been waiting to buy an MP3 player for quite a while now. The slick stick-format Sony player was going to be it, until I found out how badly the software sucked and how crippled it was. The Nano made me just stare in disbelief and I've got one on order. Why? Size and design. It's finally small enough to carry comfortably, has sufficient features (screen!), looks very nice (I also like the free engraving!) and to boot it should interface with my car stereo like other iPods do!
Yeah, it only has 2/4 gigs, compared to 20, but that tradeoff versus the size is a total no-brainer for me. Besides, 4 gigs of music should keep me going for a pretty darn long time. There are other brands out there that have players that are also small and have a screen, but none of them has the aesthetically pleasing design and tactile feel of the iPods.
With the exception of its somewhat "delicate" installation requirements, World Wind does rather rock! Keep up the good work, and thank you!
Of course this only applies to a basic, simple TCP/IP stack. Once you have to deal with Vlan trunking, QoS, load-balancing and similar things the load on the computer grows quite a bit. I can certainly see why it would make sense to put reasonable buffers, queing logic and other fairly advanced features on a card if performance is more important than price.
None of these cards are intended for people's home PCs. They're meant for servers with 64-bit buses and SANs, where many of the other bottlenecks discussed earlier in this thread don't exist.
I second that. The only reason I'm still diddling around with my minidisk player is that it has microphone, line and TOSlink inputs and lets me record in very good quality in addition to playing. This is the first MP3 player I've seen offering anything remotely as useful. Now, the question is, does it also allow for automatic voice-operated control, and does it automatically preserve tracks when recording from TOSlink?
I think the phone looks ugly! The last decent looking phone Ericsson (or Sony) put out is the T39, which I love dearly. Maybe I'm just old fashioned :-)
2 kilometers? I don't think so, unless they have version with 100FX. Copper ethernet stops at 100 meters. Then again, even that would make for a pretty big stage... But just wait until someone
figures out that this would be a perfect application for wireless. And power-over-ethernet seems to have found yet another application.
What I really want out of this are crush-proof, silicone sheathed ethernet cables that are easy to spool.
Curiously enough, Disney is known for Donald Duck & co more than for Mickey in Europe. At least the Scandinavian weekly comic books and pocket books also contain a reasonable amount of actual cultural knowledge, though nowhere near that of Asterix. They also have thriving and neat fan clubs and reader service. Anyhow, I've learned a lot of little strange trivia from my childhood with European Disney comics, be it about El Dorado, shrinking heads or the different sizes of wine bottles. I don't think most of this material was ever published in any meaningful fashion in the US, the more the shame.
Nope, but a lot of GSM/GPRS phones on the market act as a regular modem, so you can use a laptop/pda via bluetooth or IR or (ick) cable to dial-up. Unlimited weekend/night plans come in handy with something like that ;-)
The old Nokia communicator had vt100 terminal emulation, I think that's the closest I've seen any phone vendor come so far...
I'm sitting in front of a Sun 21" monitor at 1200x1024 @ 75 and I can't use my Cybex Switchview for monitor switching, from all the blur and shadows. It also echoes garbage (~b?) on some computers when switching keyboards. The specs and reviews claimed it'd work, but reality is different and the company disavowed any responsibility. My last Cybex product...
GSM. Cingular, VoiceStream and AT&T offer GSM in various parts of the country. The coverage isn't great overall, but improving. They still try to get you to buy a phone that's "subsidy locked" or "provider locked" meaning you can't take it to another provider's network. Some of the vendors also cripple the phones, disabling features they don't feel like supporting.
You can, however, buy normal (unlocked) phones from third parties, off eBay, whatever. VoiceStream has also unlocked people's phones after a sufficiently long service term.
Unfortunately the US decided to use a GSM spectrum different from that used elsewhere on the planet, so you are limited to either domestic models or multi-band world phones. Still, some of the offerings are pretty nifty, and the many of the GSM phones have excellent design and usability.
They exist, most notably in the troubled Foma system in Japan. Some of these phones were showcased in CTIA in Orlando earlier this year, and seemed to work pretty well. The video conferencing isn't going to be the killer though, I predict that the ability to take color snapshots and send them to others much like SMS messages is the feature that's going to prove most popular.
It should also be remembered that the H1B program greatly predates the dot com boom. Will the next victim be the visa categories allowing health care workers into the country? Instead of foreign nurses, let's just wait 'till enough Americans are retrained? Or let foreigners come in, then kick them out when all those people sucked in by the "Lucrative careers in nursing" ads graduate?
This is a very uninformed xenophobic rant. If H1B workers work for significantly lower wages than their American counterparts, it's illegal. Also, companies are required to give notice about the terms of hire to unions or other local workers prior to the fact, and at all renewals. Many H1B workers don't come from low-wage countries, but from Europe and Australia. They're hardly going to take a lot of BS from their American employers which already have much worse vacation, medical etc. benefits to offer. Finally, H1B workers aren't completely indentured. If they find another employer willing to sponsor their visa, they can change jobs.
If a company is paying a H1B worker less than the going wage for that position, they're violating existing federal laws. If this is a problem, there needs to be enforcement (for which the INS has hardly any budget), not new laws that can be ignored.
IANAL, but I believe multinational corporations can also import workers under visa categories other than H1B?
I dispute that. The US is a very large, incredibly diverse country. There are wiccans, orthodox jews, muslims, hindus, catholics, all of different races and cultural backgrounds (from their American families). There is no one American culture to understand. There are American ideals instead, and perhaps many of these foreigners try come to the US because they believe in those ideals and want to help build the nation?
A couple of points:
1) By law, H1B workers must be paid more than the going average wage for your position in your area. If companies are not, they're in violation of federal law and it's an enforcement problem.
2) H1B workers have to pay all the same taxes as Americans. In fact, for at least one year they're not eligible for even the standard deduction, and despite paying FICA taxes, they're not eligible for any social security benefits themselves.
3) I wish you luck and hope things improve soon.
Third world countries like Sweden, Finland and Germany?
Another group of users that need this bandwidth are network operators/backbone carriers. As expensive as 10 Gbps Ethernet is, it's still a lot cheaper than a Sonet or ATM solution of the same speed, and much more suited to connecting routers and switches together in a colo / switch center.
Besides, it's not that far from regular data centers either. Servers typically come with gigabit cards these days, and you need to be able to aggregate all these gigabit connections somehow. Clustering, backups, database duplication etc. all benefit from big pipes.
Before capping bandwidth and hideously oversubscribing Time Warner provided me with a 5 Mbps cable modem connection in the Tampa Bay area, as measured from downloading a RedHat ISO image from a university FTP server. Those were the days... In any event, cable modem technology supports a lot higher speeds than what users are currently getting.
All the Samsung, Sony/Ericsson etc. phones I've seen are butt ugly! Even the new Motorola phones beat these things in design! Feature-wise the asians seem to have an edge, though. Nokia, Benefon, Siemens at least make a phone that isn't a boring over-sized square.
Bonified lock smith sounds pretty lewd. They do it with a twist?